Re: Bots in PartyPoker\'s 6-max Limit games?
matrix - I agree.
I'd add that you need to be fairly intelligent and do a lot of tedious work to build a winning bot, and it's even more difficult to make it undetectable and play enough accounts to make it worthwhile. The time and money EV of building a winning bot for someone with the skill to do so is probably less than they could get from playing the game straight up, especially given the presence of higher stakes games. For the few that are winners, no one seems to be willing to sell it either.
After going through the evidence, Ray is definitely wrong about bots taking over online poker. At least for the next few years. As long as players like the OP keep their eyes open, and demand strong anti-bot measures and penalties from the sites, the ratio of humans to bots will stay very high. Which is probably the best we can hope for.
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Arnfinn - sites can definitely make it a very difficult, time consuming, pain in the butt process to run a bot. It looks like Party Poker are taking a step in that direction (they've always been way ahead on this issue anyway), but it's not that well implemented. I wish other sites would step up as well and take a lead on this issue. The one that does will get a large share of my business and a good name.
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